Important Quotes Effie Velasco "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 3 "What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1 "People never notice anything."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 2 "When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 6 "It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9 "Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9 "I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 10 "It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13 "I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13 "If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17 "It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 21 Holden: "You know that song, 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'?..."
Phoebe: "It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!... It's a poem. By Robert Burns."
-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 22 "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 26
"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 3
"What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1
"People never notice anything."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 2
"When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 6
"It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9
"Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9
"I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 10
"It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13
"I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13
"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17
"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 21
Holden: "You know that song, 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'?..."
Phoebe: "It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!... It's a poem. By Robert Burns."
-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 22
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 26